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People talk about the funniest pop culture moments of all time but "pre-fame David Bowie opens for T.Rex by doing a mime routine in support of a free Tibet, gets booed off stage by white maoists" will always make me laugh
"You can't be miming like that"- white maoist
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I’m reading Anne Buck’s Victorian Costume and Costume Accessories and I feel like I've just spotted a celebrity!
(As usual, a caveat about something being obvious to others but new to my simple brain)
'Captain Crozier and Miss Ross opened the ball with a quadrille"
Yes they did. But I also believe we have an actual picture of James and Francis dancing together.
This depiction by John Edward Davis (who is also responsible for the above quote) of the Ross Expedition's 1842 New Year celebration on the ice is my desktop background. I stare at it every day and the more I look at it, the more I love it.
Just look at those jolly pissed up sailors! The energy, the music, the hooting and grinning, the booze, the hat-waving cheers. it's WILD. It's pure joy.
And the dancing! The hand-holding dancing!
The figures of the men are hugely expressive. Not just their smiling and cheering expressions, their pipe-chomping, their coats variously unbottoned coat, but their bodies. Davis very deliberately depicts what it is their bodies are doing in their respective enjoyment of the festivities.
Also, wait — is that someone who's just floored it after slipping on the ice? And the suggestive snowy footprints leading away from the Ice Venus in the foreground? It's QUITE the scene.
Some years back, in their fantastic post, @indifferent-century pointed to the two top hatted figures at the centre as very likely being James Clark Ross and Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier:
"And in the center we have two blue-coated and hat-wearing figures sitting seated on a high platform of snow."
HANG ON.... ARE they sitting?
Let's look at the energetic, leg-kicking dancing happening elsewhere in the scene. The men are holding hands in groups of three, five.. and four.
...It's the same arrangement. It's the quadrille.
You cannot convince me that isn't Francis and James DANCING the quadrille with two of their company. I would also put a bet on the lighter-haired figure on the right being Francis, either about to hold hands with James and the other smiling figure — or maybe slipping on the ice :D
ADDENDUM ON POSSIBLE NO-HOMO in the depiction of our two captains: I also noticed that whilst all the other dancing groups are holding hands, our captains are not. Perhaps whilst it was just about acceptable for Davis to depict his captains dancing (albeit face away), having them hold hands would have been a step too far.
Then again, as @sunflowerbower pointed out, the "Ross" figure IS holding up his coat in the same way the woman on the far right of the image above is holding up her dress.
Here we have her.
Miss Ross. Holding up her "skirt".
@i-am-countess-olivia I think you’re right! I had thought Ross was sitting and leaning forward with his hands on his legs, but this makes a lot of sense. Now the eternal debate as to whether he may have worn a dress for the actual event, even if it’s not in the painting - although it looks like the long coat is working just fine!
I wonder who the other two might be? They don’t seem to be wearing officers’ coats. And what is on the one guy’s head - is that supposed to be some sort of ladies’ cap?
"I had thought Ross was sitting and leaning forward with his hands on his legs"
I did too! It was only after staring at how the other figures were arranged that it dawned on me.
"Now the eternal debate as to whether he may have worn a dress for the actual event, even if it’s not in the painting"
As much as I want Ross to have had his Antarctic gender moment, I have a suspicion the sailors' drag costumes we think of as actual women's frocks (thanks TV Terror) were actually scrappily done tributes to feminine garb. I recall in the North Georgia Gazette from Parry's expedition a costume being described as being fashioned from a drape / curtain. No matter — in my fantasy JCR still dazzled in a stunning dress.
"I wonder who the other two might be? They don’t seem to be wearing officers’ coats. And what is on the one guy’s head - is that supposed to be some sort of ladies’ cap?"
Oh how I'd love to know! Could Edward Bird be a candidate? One thing seems clear: the figure opposite "Ross" seems to be the other "female" in the quadrille's m-f-m-f arrangement so maybe you're right about the hat?
I am INVESTED in this mystery. I just realized! @indifferent-century's post featured another version of that painting! Side by side comparison:
Perhaps one was meant for Davis' sister and the other was the "official" drawing? The one on the right is the version exposed at the Greenwich Museum. You can see that the Assumed!Ross has pale hair, which would match the luscious grey mane he was sporting at the time...? Let's appreciate the fact the details of the "skirt holding" remains (Although it is much more evident that it is what he does on the left than on the right... I also initially mistook the right pose as an impressive case of leaning on his legs while manspreading outrageously). Which, I think, does lean into the idea that this would be, indeed, Miss Ross, the star of the day (definitely the star of my heart) It looks like the mad lad on the right version is wearing a Sailor's Tar hat rather than a laddie's cap or a any other soft cap... I must disregard Bird, who had a receding hairlines then and dark hair. This guy looks like he has some wild wild curls... I was thinking maybe one of the scientists who were close to Ross on the Erebus but that's a bare face so it couldn't be Hooker with that smooth baby face... ooor maybe? (Young Hooker on the right for reference... I'd say the ressemblance is uncanny :') )
Bird could be Assumed!Crozier's counterpart although he is not wearing a Lieutenant's coat. Although, let's be honest, this is not a uniform dress moment so maybe he did away without and was enjoying the nice weather in a gansey and vest type of situation... Considering that no other long coats is seen in this joyful scene, perhaps the Lieutenants did not have such coats? (Ok, this is ABSOLUTELY veering in the realm of assumptions and make beliefs for the fun of it... none of this is scientific... and unserious)
Same exact facial hair shape!
Other contendants: Thomas Abernathy, the Ice-Master/Gunner who was long-time companion and friendly with Ross (see him dancing here for comparison):
BUT! John Ross mentioned in his 2nd voyage appendix that Abernathy was tall and everything... whereas you can see the figure of Crozier's counterpart to be shorter than Ross. If we believe the Arctic council painting, this would better match Edward Bird.
...Or Any of the other officers or petty officers (Somehow I still doubt that these gentlemen would be among the able seamen or the marines.). Who is to say at this point :D
Maybe Davis himself who would have then be in the perfect position to remember the event :).
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